Mar 10, 2012

Healthy Noodles Cutlets



Ingredients :

 

Noodles – ½ packet

Baby corns – 3

Spring onions – 3 sprigs ( finely chopped )

Grated processed cheese – ½ cup

Green chillies - 2

Ginger – ½ inch piece

Cumin ( Jeera ) powder – 1 tsp

Dry bread crumbs – ¾ cup for binding + ¾ cup for coating

Oil – As required for shallow frying

Salt – To taste

 

  Method :

Cook the baby-corn + ½ cup water for 7-8 minutes. Then, drain the water completely and let the baby-corn to cool for few minutes. Remove the corn kernels ( makai ke dane ) and grind the corn kernels into a coarse mixture. Keep aside.
Grind green chillies + ginger.
Cook noodles till done without adding any masala. Drain the water completely and keep aside.
In a bowl, add the cooked noodles, corn kernels mixture, green chilly-ginger paste, chopped spring-onions, ¾ cup of bread crumbs, cumin powder and salt. Mix all the ingredients evenly. Prepare small round or heart shaped patties and roll the patties in the bread crumbs.
      On a tava or flat pan, heat oil. Shallow fry the patties till golden browned on both sides of the cutlets.
      Serve hot with tomato sauce.


For No onion - No garlic version , you can add coriander leaves instead of spring onions.